IRS INCREASES FICA WAGE THRESHOLD
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has increased the Social Security and Medicare wage threshold for household employers from $1,500 to $1,600 for calendar year 2008. See IRS Publication 15, (Circular E) Employer’s Tax Guide for Use in 2008 under “What’s New” for more information.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Flanagan was a second author on a paper presented as a poster at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meetings on November 17, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The paper was entitled: Accessing Assistive Technology Through Medicaid Home and Community-based Waivers and was submitted with T. Moore (first author) and B. O’Connell (third author) at Abt Associates in Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Flanagan developed and presented at the second National Government and Vendor Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop on November 1-2, 2007 in Baltimore, MD. This Workshop was co-sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Robert Wood Johnson Cash & Counseling National Program Office at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA.
